February-March 1922

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LENIN COLLECTED WORKS

LETTER TO L. B. KRASIN*

February-March 1922

Comrade Krasin

Top Secret

Comrade Krasin,

You told me during one of our recent meetings that you had held negotiations with an English merchant about forming a joint company for the realization of precious stones and the like.

I ask you to write me a few lines: did anything come of this plan? The same regarding Germany.

Furthermore, I ask you to answer me: could you commission someone to prepare a brief summary (no more than 2-3 pages) of factual data characterizing the development of our foreign trade over recent months—for example, over the last 6 months. I would find such a thing extremely necessary for a report at the Party Congress**. An approximate list of questions:

Number of trade treaties with other powers, indicating the year and month of their conclusion.

Number of mixed companies formed for trade with capitalists of various nations.

Volume of imports and exports in pre-war rubles by month for recent months.

Orders and imports, subdivided into foodstuffs and items of industrial equipment.

Number of merchants attracted by the NKVT on a commission basis, separately Russian and foreign, etc.

With communist greetings,

Lenin

* The letter was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Published according to the secretary's notes.
** See Collected Works, Vol. XXVII, pp. 232 and 240-241.

# LETTER TO A. D. TSIURUPA

March 1, 1922

Comrade Tsiurupa,

Regarding the question of the Civil Code, having acquainted myself with its main provisions, I consider it more cautious and correct to confine ourselves for now to a declarative statement, and to work over the code itself in greater detail.

I ask you to endeavor to carry this through the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Political Bureau.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

Lenin

# TO THE SIBERIAN REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE

March 6, 1922

I am sending you a letter from M. Bagaev. I charge you with verifying the facts set forth in his letter, investigating the reason for the assignment of rates disproportionate to the harvest, and punishing those guilty of exceeding their authority in collecting the food tax and in torturing peasants, as well as establishing a picture of tax collection in other volosts of Novo-Nikolaevsk Province.

It is necessary to adopt particularly energetic measures for the complete reseeding of areas that suffered from improper collection of the food tax.

Report to me on the execution of this.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Published according to the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

# LETTER TO THE SECRETARY

March 7, 1922

Comrade Glässer!

The work of compiling the speech this time is much better than the previous ones, but it is still poor nonetheless. Compare more carefully the first text with the one I have corrected*.

* Reference is to the stenographic record of the report "On the International and Internal Situation of the Soviet Republic," delivered by V. I. Lenin at the metal-workers' faction of the All-Russian Congress on March 6, 1922 (Collected Works, Vol. XXVII, pp. 168-179).